Gemini Co-Founder Tyler Winklevoss Blasts Crypto For Harris Town Hall: “Clown Show”

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Gemini co-founder Tyler Winklevoss took to X late Wednesday to express his disappointment regarding this week’s Crypto For Harris town hall supporting Kamala Harris’ 2024 U.S. presidential election campaign.

Tyler Winklevoss Shares His Thoughts On Crypto For Harris Event

The newfound Democratic collective hosted its first event Wednesday which featured several high-profile speakers including former White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci, New York Senators Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand, and billionaire Mark Cuban.

However, not all were taken with the left-leaning digital asset group’s virtual town hall.

“Pre-recorded videos. Reading from scripts,” Winklevoss wrote. “Harris a no-show at her own event. What a clown show.”

While some speakers, including Gillibrand, spoke via pre-recorded videos, there is no indication Harris was ever set to attend or address attendees of the event.

Winklevoss then went on to repost an edited logo published by his brother Cameron which changed the Crypto Advocates For Harris 2024’s slogan from “together, we can win this” to “together, we can kill crypto!”

“Fixed it for you,” Cameron captioned the image.

The Race Between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris Heats Up

The Winklevoss brothers have both long been known for their conservatism, with the duo most recently each donating $1 million worth of Bitcoin to Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s campaign in June.

“President Donald J. Trump is the pro-Bitcoin, pro-crypto, and pro-business choice. This is not even remotely open for debate,” Tyler wrote in a June X post shortly following the contribution. “Anyone who tells you otherwise is severely misinformed, delusional, or not telling the truth.”

Trump has largely been presented as a crypto-friendly candidate, vowing at the Bitcoin Conference 2024 last month that he would make the U.S. the “crypto capital of the planet.”

“We will have regulations, but from now on the rules will be written by the people who love your industry, not hate your industry,” Trump told attendees of the Bitcoin-focused conference.

According to reports earlier this year, the Winklevoss brothers have donated an estimated $4.9 million to crypto super PAC Fairshake, of which they were both initial investors.

Fairshake has now acquired over $200 million in funds, making it the largest super PAC in total funds raised ahead of the 2024 U.S. presidential election.

However, Crypto For Harris may be seen as a last-minute effort to rally crypto-related support for Harris before voters head to the ballot box in November.